Dear Friend and Reader,
AS I WAS DRIVING HOME Tuesday night, I saw the stars shining like little diamonds between the branches of the barren trees, and I thought to myself that it was autumn. It’s in full swing here, the trees are shedding their flesh and becoming skeletons to line the sky. The greens are turning to ambers and the scent of pollen is fermenting into the scent of rot.
Yes, the nights are growing colder and leaving a trace of frost on my plants, my tomatoes are drooping, my cats come bounding in with the cold captured in their fur. Halloween is on its way, and with it, that unmistakeable sense that Death walks behind us, no matter how swell the summer had been. It’s all a memory now and it’s time to buckle down; the season of Transformation has begun.
It’s strange that the world is facing this economic metamorphosis as the Sun moves into Scorpio. Scorpio is one of those signs that gets summed up so badly that most of the complexity inherent in it is totally lost.
One reason for this is Scorpio energy (and notice how I am not saying Scorpio natives) is the sign of Death. Death is a hard one for the living and therefore symbols of Death are given a very wide berth when it comes to interpretation.
However, in Scorpio’s domain, Death and Regeneration go hand in hand. Scorpio is the traditional ruler of the eighth house, which is the house of transactions, sex, and…death. What do sex, death and taxes have in common? Well, for one thing, they are pretty hard to ignore, or escape (at least the taxes one is anyways), secondly, all three of them have to do with something energetic moving from one place to another. In sex, it is genetic fluids; in death, it is energy and matter; in taxes, it is money.
I’ve noticed alot of people feel the need to make some kind of weird hand gestures when they talk about Scorpio, or bug their eyes, or do anything else that implies Scorpio is a terrifying sign that incurs wrath upon all those who earn the said wrath. I find this to be indicative of a certain unwillingness to meet change and metamorphosis head on.